A young girl is seen soon after dawn in the village of Ghulam Ali, Parwan province, Afghanistan. Fighting between the Northern Alliance and the Taliban, along with massive U.S. airstrikes, made the plain a critically dangerous place to live.

A graduate demonstrates his skills at the headquarters of the Counternarcotics Police of Afghanistan, CNPA, where recruits are trained by Blackwater, a U.S. global security company, in Kabul, Afghanistan.